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Patrick Glauthier
The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome

The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome charts the significance of the sublime in first-century debates about how and why we investigate the natural world. By connecting Manilius' Astronomica , Seneca's N…

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Erich Neumann,
Amor and Psyche

A mythic journey of psychological transformation and the development of the selfThe renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass , is one of the most charmin…

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Charles McNelis
Statius: Achilleid

Statius' Achilleid tells the story of the mythical Achilles and, in particular, his time hiding disguised as a girl on the island of Scyros. This new Latin text with facing-page English translation is acc…

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Alex Mullen, Anna Willi
Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West

This volume offers a detailed anatomy of the spread of Latin and local and regional language change across Britain, Gaul, the Germanies, and the Iberian Peninsula during the late Roman republic to the end…

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Georgia Henley
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales

This study demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of Welsh marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which had an enduring impact…

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Mario Telò
Roman Comedy Against the Subject

This book integrates several critical-theoretical approaches including object-oriented ontology, queer theory, and feminist phenomenology to create a set of tools for de-familiarizing Roman comedy.

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Georgia Henley
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales

This study demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of Welsh marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which had an enduring impact…

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Antje Richter
Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature

Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200-ca. 600) through a range of literary sources-essays, prefaces, correspondence, religious…

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Matthew Siôn Lampitt
Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches

This volume explores the literary and political culture of the medieval Welsh Marches, with particular focus on Hereford, Ludlow, and Ynysforgan. It examines texts in French, Welsh, English, and Latin to …

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Suzanne Lye
Life / Afterlife

Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld scenes are a unique form of embedded storytelling, appearing across ti…

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Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou
Silius Italicus: Punica, Book 17

This volume presents a new edition and translation into English of Book 17 of Silius Italicus' Punica. Angeliki-Nektaria Roumpou's introduction and line-by-line commentary sheds light on the poet's dialog…

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James Diggle
Euripides: Fabulae Vol. II (Euripidis Fabulae Tomus II, Supplices, Electra, Hercules, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion)

This is a second edition of the second volume of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). This volume includes an entirely new apparatus criticus, reassigning a large number of conjecture…

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Ahuvia Kahane
Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity

Shows how classical ideas and material helped to shape the modern world. This book rethinks the characterization of two contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames the…

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Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity

This intersectional study demonstrates for the first time how the lens of Graeco-Roman antiquity has informed Irish expressions of migration from the medieval period to the present day.

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Anke Walter
Festivals in Latin Literature

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid's Fasti. This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic p…

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Judah D Galinsky
The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

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Steven J Green
Ilias Latina

The Ilias Latina ('the Latin Iliad') is a condensed Latin version of Homer's epic on the Trojan war, and was likely composed under Nero. Long neglected as a poem worthy of study, there is a growing awaren…

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Aldo Bottino
Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand the architecture of the epic and its causation. Aldo Bottino combines cognitive scie…

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Latin Texts on Papyrus and the Study of Classics

This volume gathers 25 chapters focused on Latin texts on papyrus, exploring them from multi- and cross-disciplinary perspectives. It serves as a companion to the texts published in The Corpus of Latin Te…

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